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> # Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

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2. > Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to cha…

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3. > Two pictures painted in the year 1907 can conveniently be taken as the starting point of twentieth-century art. They are Matisse's Blue Nude and Picasso's Demo…

[Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/16/ "Permalink to quote 16")

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